Some Everyday English Words You’ve Probably Been Pronouncing Wrong All This While

Let’s be honest, none of us likes getting corrected. Do we? Noh…and it becomes so embarrassing when someone stops you over a word that you just pronounced wrong. Okay, so I remember the other day a friend of mine pronounced Iron as ‘eye-run’ instead of ‘aye-urn’. We too often commit such mistakes and there is nothing to feel bad about it. These vocabulary words are some of the worst offenders, so no shame if you have been saying bray-k-faast wrong this entire time.

So, it’s time to correct them up now…

#1. Poem

#2. Epitome

#3. Debris

#4. Poignant

#5. Asthma

#6. Wednesday

#7. Pizza

#8. Lingerie

#9. Bowl

#10. Chutzpah

#11. Breakfast

#12. Video

#13. Discretion

#14. Violin

#15. Monk

#16. Extempore

#17. Bury

#18. Dengue

#19. Tomb

#20. Chassis

#21. Coupon

#22. Marijuana

#23. Iron

#24. Banquet

#25. Mojito

#26. Restaurant

#27. Engineer

#28. Entrepreneur

#29. Data

#30. Demon

#31. Tour

#32. Subtract

#33. Genre

#34. Pronunciation

So now, when you know how to pronounce these words correctly, we believe you will never go wrong with it!